I think "settling" IS the male equivalent, it's just not used, perhaps, for relationships. Certainly men can talk about settling for jobs, or saying things like, "I wanted steak for dinner, but I'll settle for getting food in the next twenty minutes!"
So it's not that there's no word, but (as the last poster said, perhaps) men don't have a relationship status that they consider to be "settling."
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Date: 2008-03-12 10:26 pm (UTC)So it's not that there's no word, but (as the last poster said, perhaps) men don't have a relationship status that they consider to be "settling."